US Retail Compensation and Benefits Survey

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With fewer brick and mortar locations, increase in online services, and supply chain challenges, change continues to hit the retail industry hard. This places new pressure on employers to find and keep talent to lay the groundwork for your organization to thrive.

Building your retail talent foundation begins with offering competitive pay and benefits, which starts with analyzing trusted market data.

Motivate and attract top talent based on data from the US Retail Compensation and Benefits Survey, which provides data for 929 jobs across numerous position families, including administration, distribution, e-commerce, finance/accounting, and much more. Compare your retail salaries to those of the competition across three core modules - apparel manufacturing, restaurant, or supermarket. Evaluate your retail pay rates and compensation strategy against all 278 organizations, or narrow the data by individual parameters such as industry sectors, company size, and location.

Go beyond pay for your retail employees, with survey data on short-term incentive amounts, incentive eligibility, and total cash compensation:

Do you have the market data needed to keep pace with the retail sector?
Survey # of Positions Published # of Organizations
US Retail Compensation and Benefits Survey 929 278
US Retail Compensation and Benefits Survey – Apparel Manufacturing 128 78
US Retail Compensation and Benefits Survey – Restaurant 77 33
US Retail Compensation and Benefits Survey – Supermarket 138 52

*Note: Table above is based off of 2022 Retail survey stats.

Participation open: March – April

Data effective : April 1

Results publish: September


2022 results available

  • 929 positions published
  • USD 1,650 – 7,200
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Survey Statistics

  • # Positions Surveyed: 1,734
  • # Positions Published: 929
  • # Organizations: 278
  • # Observations: 2,535,603

Based on data from the 2022 US Retail Compensation and Benefits Survey. Data minimum and suppression rules account for the difference between the number of positions surveyed and published.

Data Collected

  • Base Pay
  • Benefits Prevalence
  • Benefits Valuation
  • HR and Industry Practices
  • Incentive Eligibility
  • Organization Demographics
  • Short-term Incentive Amounts
  • Total Cash Compensation
  • Total Direct Compensation

Data Analyzed

Industry Sector

  • Apparel, Fashion, Footwear & Accessories
  • Convenience
  • Department Stores
  • Electronics, Entertainment, Communications, Office
  • Grocery, Pharmacy, General Merchandise
  • Home, Hardware, Building & Garden Supplies
  • Restaurants
  • Specialty Stores

Geographic Area

  • Metropolitan Area
  • National
  • Regional

Size

  • Number of Stores
  • Organization Revenues
  • Store Headcount for Store Manager
  • Store Revenue
  • Store Size

Sub Sector

  • Apparel & Accessories Combination Stores
  • Apparel/Accessories - Family
  • Apparel/Accessories - Infants/Children
  • Apparel/Accessories - Men
  • Apparel/Accessories - Women
  • Automotive Dealers
  • Automotive Parts & Services
  • Books/Music/Video
  • Combination Electronics etc. Stores
  • Combination Grocery etc. Stores
  • Combination Specialty Stores
  • Communications Stores
  • Convenience
  • Convenience Combination Gas/Petro & Convenience
  • Department Stores
  • Drug Stores, Pharmacies
  • Electronics Stores
  • Entertainment Stores
  • Fine Dining
  • Footwear/Shoes
  • Furniture & Home Furnishings Stores
  • Garden Supplies
  • Gas/Petrol
  • General Merchandise
  • Gifts/Novelties
  • Grocery Stores
  • Hardware
  • Home Goods & Products
  • Jewelry
  • Luxury
  • Office Supply Stores
  • Other Home Products
  • Other Specialty Stores
  • Quick Service, Fast Food
  • Restaurant Chains
  • Salon/Personal Care Products
  • Sporting Goods/Hobby
  • Wholesale Trade - Other or Combination
  • Wholesale Trade, Durable Goods
  • Wholesale Trade, Non-Durable Goods

Position Families Analyzed

  • Administration, Facilities & Secretarial
  • Communications & Corporate Affairs
  • Construction
  • Creative & Design
  • Customer Service & Contact Center Operations
  • Data Analytics/Warehousing, & Business Intelligence
  • Engineering & Science
  • Finance
  • General Management
  • Healthcare/Pharmacy Services
  • Hospitality (Food Service & Lodging)
  • Human Resources
  • IT, Telecom & Internet
  • Legal, Compliance & Audit
  • Project/Program Management
  • Production & Skilled Trades
  • Real Estate Management, Property Development & Investment
  • Retail
  • Supply Chain
  • Sales, Marketing & Product Management
  • Transportation Services

This survey is powered by Mercer Job Library. View Mercer Job Library FAQs for more details. Survey results are delivered in Mercer WIN®, giving you access to the data through a variety of customizable parameters. Your survey purchase includes access for three (3) Mercer WIN® users. If you need additional users, they can be added during checkout.

Pricing

Product Participant Non-Participant
2022 US Retail Compensation and Benefits Survey USD 2,400 USD 7,200
2022 US Retail Compensation and Benefits Survey – Apparel Manufacturing USD 1,950 USD 5,850
2022 US Retail Compensation and Benefits Survey – Supermarket  USD 2,000 USD 6,000
2022 US Retail Compensation and Benefits Survey – Restaurant USD 1,650 USD 4,950
2022 US Retail Compensation and Benefits Survey – Retail and Apparel Manufacturing  USD 3,850 USD 11,550
2022 US Retail Compensation and Benefits Survey – Retail and Supermarket  USD 3,900 USD 11,700
2022 US Retail Compensation and Benefits Survey – Retail and Restaurant  USD 3,550 USD 10,650
 

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Position List

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2023 Survey Participation

2023 survey participation is now closed. The act of submitting data to a survey is known as survey participation and your company is then viewed as a participant. Survey participation is open to all organizations and is not required to purchase results.

Key Dates:

  • Participation opens March 1, 2023
  • Participation closes May 4, 2023

Why should you participate?

  • Align your pay to the market
  • Maximize your budget by making informed decisions to ensure you are not overpaying or underpaying
  • Receive invitations to exclusive participant-only events

Product Participant Non-Participant
2023 US Retail Compensation and Benefits Survey USD 3,000 USD 9,000

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